Operation Ottawa

Operation Ottawa (21 September 1968) was a United States military operation during the Vietnam War that saw the MACV-SOG repulse a North Vietnamese Army assault on Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam.

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NVA irregulars near the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon launched an assault on the damaged outskirts of the city, so the American MACV-SOG launched an operation to drive the North Vietnamese back. The SOG troops used mortar bombardments to weaken the NVA forces in the city, while the NVA used a napalm attack on the SOG. The NVA were pushed back, and Sergeant Leroy B. Sanders of the MACV-SOG was awarded a Purple Heart for saving the life of a wounded SOG member with medicine before being shot dead himself by an NVA soldier.